As you will be aware from a number of communications and sessions, the university currently participates in several Transformative Agreements (TAs) with major scholarly publishers including Springer Nature, Wiley, SAGE, Taylor & Francis, Cambridge University Press, and Elsevier.

TAs are ostensibly those contracts negotiated between institutions and publishers that transform the business model underlying scholarly journal publishing, moving from one based on subscription to one in which publishers are remunerated a fair price for their open access publishing services. A major benefit for authors is that their work is published in an openly accessible form under a Creative Commons licence (and our institutional preference is for CC BY 4.0 through TAs, and any deviation thereof should be discussed with the <a href="http://<a href="mailto:ks8035h@gre.ac.uk">Scholarly Communications Manager.)

As part of the approval process for using a TA, we need to confirm that the corresponding author of the paper is a registered user with the university. This can be done through various means on the publisher’s end, but we check through various systems to clarify that the deal is being used as we have contractually agreed with each publisher.

In the spirit of this requirements, we expect all corresponding authors making use of their Greenwich affiliation to use the university email address as part of their submission for publication with a publisher. This will expedite approval on our side, and will also help publishers to offer the opportunity to use a TA.